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Phosphorus (P) is a vital mineral nutrient in agriculture and its deficiency results in reduced growth, yield, and grain quality in cereals. Much of the applied P in agriculture becomes fixed in soils, limitin...
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Open AccessAcrocomia spp.: neglected crop, ballyhooed multipurpose palm or fit for the bioeconomy? A review
Acrocomia spp., a genus of wild-growing palms in the neotropics, is rapidly gaining interest as a promising multipurpose crop. Diverse products can be derived from various components of the palm, the oils being o...
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Can Occurrence and Distribution of Ground Beetles (Carabidae) Be Influenced by the Coffee Farming System in the Mount Elgon Region of Uganda?
The Mount Elgon region of Uganda has coffee farmlands distributed along the slopes of the mountain, in a mosaic of differing crop combinations, and semi-natural vegetation. Thus, there are parcels of varying m...
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Worldwide, soil degradation due to erosion is still a major issue. Minimum tillage, intercrop**, and alley crop** are important features of conservation agriculture and food security, but the farming commu...
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Agroforestry systems have a large potential to increase systems’ productivity and provide soil conservation in hilly terrain but comprise complex interactions at the crop-soil-tree interface. Modelling can be ...
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Following up on earlier work, we investigate possible effects of a dressed quark–gluon vertex in heavy–light mesons. In particular, we study corrections to the popular rainbow-ladder truncation of the Dyson–Sc...
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We investigate capabilities of the effective interaction in a rainbow-ladder truncated meson model of QCD within a covariant Landau-gauge Bethe–Salpeter-equation approach. Based upon past success for the light...
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Combining δ13C measurements and ERT imaging: improving our understanding of competition at the crop-soil-hedge interface
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We conducted a field experiment on a 53 %-slope in Northwest Vietnam using 15N-labelled urea to trace its fate in maize (Zea mays) under intensive tillage and fertilization (T1, control) versus maize with Panicum...
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The mountainous ecosystems of Southeast Asia have experienced a tremendous increase in human activity over the last few decades. An integral part of land use change and land use intensification in the area is ...
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This chapter briefly summarizes the causes and consequences of soil erosion, before presenting examples of effective soil conservation technologies (SCT), such as contour-based crop**, cover crops, mulching ...
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Open AccessWhy do people not learn from flood disasters? Evidence from Vietnam’s northwestern mountains
This article explores how the causes and impacts of a flood event as perceived by local people shape immediate responses and future mitigation efforts in mountainous northwest Vietnam. Local flood perception i...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a Three-Dimensional In Vitro Model for Longitudinal Observation of Cell Behavior: Monitoring by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Optical Imaging
The aim of this study is the development of a three-dimensional multicellular spheroid cell culture model for the longitudinal comparative and large-scale screening of cancer cell proliferation with noninvasiv...
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Effectiveness of Fertilization and Other Agricultural Management Options in Picos and Tauá, NE Brazil
The socioeconomic development of northeast Brazil is highly related to the occurrence of droughts (Villa 2000). Therefore, a large part of northeast Brazil is also known as the polygon of drought. Frequency, d...
